Hello and welcome to For The Wild Podcast, I'm Ayanna Young.

Today we are speaking with Diana Friedrich.

I have to remind myself every day when I see these facts on how the world is collapsing.

To say no, I'm not doing it to save the world.

I'm doing it for myself because I enjoyed the process because I'm surrounded by loving

people who feel the same and not forget about the big context, but remembering that we do this

for ourselves. We do this because it is the purpose of our lives.

Diana is a naturalist and adventurer.

From a very early childhood, her parents took her and her four siblings traveling to the wildest

and most remote places of Argentina and Chile. Right after finishing high school,

she volunteered and worked at several conservation organizations in Argentina.

She received a degree in nature conservation in South Africa

and worked in nature reserves and communities in Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Tanzania.

In Argentina, Diana coordinated field activities at the Hooded Grabby Project for three seasons

and worked as a field technician on rewilding Argentina's project to reintroduce giant

and eaters and red and green macaws. She currently lives in Patagonia and manages the Patagonia

Azul projects, parks, and communities program.

Oh, Diana, this is so exciting and also feels very full circle to be speaking with you today.

I had mentioned a bit before we started the official interview that I fell in love with

the wild in Patagonia as well as, well, how could I say this? The podcast idea came to me driving

the dirt roads through Argentina and Chile. And so even just the few moments we got to talk

before this, I started being transported back to a decade ago when I was so naive or I don't know

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